Jared Sparks collection of miscellaneous papers relating to the Revolution, 1777-1782

Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868

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David Lowry Swain, lawyer, governor, and educator, was born near Asheville, N.C., in Buncombe County. His father, George Swain, was a Massachusetts native who settled in Georgia and served in the Georgia legislature and constitutional convention of 1795 before moving to the North Carolina mountains. Caroline Swain, his mother, was the daughter of Jesse Lane. Caroline Swain had four children with her first husband, David Lowry. She and George Swain had seven children, of whom David ...

Hall, David P. (David Priestly), 1798-1868

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David Priestly Hall (1798-1868) was born on July 15, 1798, in Pomfret, Connecticut. He was one of eleven children of Bathsheba Mumford (1757-1823) from Newport, Rhode Island, and Dr. Jonathan Hall (1754-1817). He entered Harvard in 1816, graduated with the class of 1820, and went on to study law. David Priestly Hall began practicing law in New York City in 1824, and eventually established a law practice with his brother, John Prescott Hall (1796-1862), located at 1 Nassau Street in...

Onderdonk, Henry, Jr., 1804-1886

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Henry Onderdonk (1804-1886) was an educator and historian, a collector of Long Island antiquities, and the author of many works based on his findings among local records. Later, he became a founder (1863) and councilor (1868-1886) of the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society), and a contributor to the Society's library and manuscript collections upon their formation. Henry Onderdonk was born June 11, 1804, at Manhasset, NY, the son of Jose...

Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869

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Macdonald, John M.

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Campbell, Maria Hull, 1788-1845

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Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854

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Philadelphia lawyer and bibliophile; commissioner under fugitive slave law; general director of the United States Bank. From the description of Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1849 September 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 62383428 ...

Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875

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Samuel Gardner Drake, antiquarian and author. Drake was born to Simeon and Love Muchmore (Tucke) Drake in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, on October 11, 1798. After teaching for several years in New Hampshire and New Jersey, Drake established a book auction business in 1828. Two years later, he opened the first antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Cornhill, Boston. Drake was a founding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, serving as its first corresponding secr...

Lewis, Nelly Custis, 1779-1852

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Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779-1852): Eleanor was born on March 31, 1779. She was the youngest granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. After her father John Parke Custis’ death in 1781 and her mother, Eleanor Calvert Custis’ marriage to Dr. David Stuart, Eleanor and her brother George Washington Parke Custis began living with the Washingtons. In 1799, Eleanor married Washington’s nephew, Lawrence Lewis. Of their eight children, only one son and three...